Geographies

Companies listed in alphabetical order by state.
	Clean Cell International Menlo Park, CA Clean Cell International, Inc. is developing low-cost, flexible, light-weight solar module.
	Virident Milpitas, CA Virident Systems builds enterprise-class solutions based on Flash and other storage-class memories (SCM). These disruptive technologies will revolutionize the data center and cloud computing by solving performance, reliability, and serviceability problems that further compound in large-scale deployment of SSDs in the current environment. Virident Systems was founded by notable Silicon Valley veterans from Google, Sun Microsystems, Cisco, SGI, and Intel.
	Pelican Imaging Mountain View, CA Pelican Imaging Corporation is a venture-backed software start-up in the business of commercializing computational cameras for the smartphone market. The company is developing a new camera technology that directly addresses the challenges posed by conventional camera design and small pixels.
	FoxTranslate San Francisco, CA FoxTranslate provides high quality translations, at half the price and twice the speed of traditional translation agencies. The company's global network of tested and rated translators have delivered translations in over 40 languages to over 10,000 clients worldwide.
	Gild San Francisco, CA Gild is where developers come to create, share, compare and improve their skills profiles. Gild skills profiles, based on hard data from testing, endorsements and real world validation, are the best indication of a developer's capabilities. With a focus on what you know, not who you know, Gild is the fastest growing global community of developers.
	Zynga (Challenge Games) San Francisco, CA Zynga is a social network game developer located in San Francisco, California, United States. The company develops browser-based games that work both stand-alone and as application widgets on social networking websites such as Facebook and MySpace. Zynga acquired Challenge Games, a Globespan portfolio company, in 2010.
	CloudShare San Mateo, CA CloudShare Inc. is the fastest and easiest way to develop, test, demo and train on business applications in the cloud. With no capital investment in hardware or supporting IT infrastructure, developers and IT admins can quickly and easily scale up (or down) and focus on the core, most valuable, highly differentiated parts of their business.
	Roku Saratoga, CA Roku is the leading Internet TV platform. Founded by Anthony Wood, inventor of the DVR, Roku was created to reinvent the way consumers experience TV by making entertainment available instantly. The award-winning Roku streaming players are now renowned for their simplicity, exceptional value and breadth of content.
	Quartics Irvine, California Quartics leverages breakthrough semiconductor architectural advantages to provide dominant media processing and media extension solutions for the computer and display markets. The company's semiconductors enable the flawless transmission of video and audio for wireless PC to TV, monitors, and projectors; PC tuner cards, docking stations, HD-networked PVRs, and video conferencing.
	Amalfi Semiconductor Los Gatos, California Amalfi Semiconductor is a fabless developer of value-added RF devices for the mobile communications industry.
	ZeaChem Menlo Park, California ZeaChem, Inc. is developing a cellulose-based biorefinery platform producing either ethanol or a broad portfolio of other chemicals. ZeaChem's innovative process was designed for high yield. The company is pioneering biorefinery technology using combinations of biochemical and thermochemical processing steps.
	Solar Power Partners Mill Valley, California Solar Power Partners, Inc. (SPP™) is a developer, owner, and manager (DOM) of a distributed network of mid-size commercial Solar Energy Facilities (SEF) that is remotely managed from a central location. SPP™ provides an innovative turn-key performance based service (PBS™) that bundles development of SEF, financing through a Power Purchase Agreement, and on-going operations tailored to meet building owner's specific needs.
	Sonics Mountain View, California Sonics develops a communication subsystem that integrates data and controls traffic on a single chip.
	MarketLive, Inc. Petaluma, California MarketLive, Inc. is the leading provider of e-commerce retail technology and services for selling online. The MarketLive® platform is an enterprise-class retail e-commerce solution specifically designed to meet the unique requirements of catalogers, retailers, direct marketers, and brand manufacturers.
	Steelwedge, Inc. Pleasanton, California Steelwedge, Inc. is an innovative developer of Enterprise Forecast Optimization software solutions that enable companies to dramatically increase margins and revenue predictability by streamlining complex demand forecasting processes.
	Nominum Redwood City, California Nominum is a pioneering provider of IP address infrastructure software for enterprises that require reliable and secure DNS, DHCP and IP address management for their mission critical networks.
	StrongMail Redwood Shores, California StrongMail provides high-performance email delivery servers for marketing and transactional email that are optimized high-deliverability.
	Luidia, Inc. San Carlos, California Luidia Inc. develops technologies and products that simplify, improve, and enhance human-computer interactions. Luidia's award-winning eBeam technology is applicable to a wide variety of markets, from large format information display to small mobile devices. The highly embeddable technology enables intuitive 2D and 3D interaction with visual data as part of OEM products or as a stand alone system.
	Amobee San Francisco, California [a•mo•bee], the company defining mobile advertising, offers comprehensive, end-to-end mobile advertising solutions and services for advertisers, publishers and operators. Headquartered in Redwood City, California, with offices in Europe, Asia, Latin America and the US, [a•mo•bee] enables its large customers to run targeted, leading edge mobile ad campaigns on a global scale with unparalleled ROI. [a•mo•bee] has financial backing from some of the biggest names in venture capital: Sequoia Capital, Accel Partners, and Globespan Capital, as well as strategic investments from Motorola, Cisco and leading operators, Vodafone and Telefónica.
	Linden Lab San Francisco, California Linden Lab is a privately held company established to develop an extraordinary new form of shared 3D entertainment. Through its first product, "Second Life," Linden Lab offers a truly collaborative, immersive and open-ended entertainment experience, where together people create and inhabit a virtual world of their own design.
	Palo Alto Networks San Jose, California Palo Alto Networks™ enables visibility and policy control of applications running on enterprise networks. Based on innovative App-ID™ application classification technology, the Palo Alto Networks PA-4000 Series is a next-generation firewall that accurately identifies applications – regardless of port, protocol, evasive tactic or even SSL encryption – at 10Gbps with no performance degradation.
	Analogix Santa Clara, California Analogix is a provider of high-performance analog and mixed-signal semiconductor products for the backplane interconnect, Long Reach Ethernet, and HDMI markets.
	Calisolar Sunnyvale, California Calisolar is a vertically integrated manufacturer of solar silicon, wafers and high-performance cells that convert sunlight directly into clean, renewable energy. The company has manufacturing operations and headquarters in Sunnyvale, California; silicon purification operations at the company’s wholly-owned subsidiary 6N Silicon located in Ontario, Canada; and a state-of-the-art research and development center in Berlin, Germany. Calisolar was founded in 2006, began production in 2009 with high volume shipments in 2010. Calisolar is currently expanding capacity at both its Sunnyvale, California and Ontario facilities.
	oDesk Sunnyvale, California oDesk enables buyers of services to hire, manage, and pay technology service providers from around the world. Buyers choose oDesk for top global talent, comprehensive management tools, and a flexible hourly payment model. Service Providers choose oDesk for challenging jobs and guaranteed payment.
	Ampulse Golden, Colorado Ampulse Corporation is developing low-cost, high efficiency crystalline-silicon (c-Si) thin-film photovoltaic modules on flexible substrates.
	OpenSpan Alpharetta, Georgia Global 2000 enterprises leverage the OpenSpan Platform to integrate applications, service-enable legacy systems, automate business processes, extend functionality and build new composite applications in order to realize immediate value on their IT investments. OpenSpan and its partners utilize the company’s unique approach to integration to accelerate service-oriented architecture (SOA) deployments and increase enterprise desktop productivity. OpenSpan received the 2008 SIIA CODiE Award for Software Newcomer of the Year, the 2008 Editors’ Choice Award from Redmond magazine and the 2007 Product of the Year Award from Customer Interaction Solutions magazine. A venture-backed company, OpenSpan is headquartered in Alpharetta, GA. More information about OpenSpan is located online at www.openspan.com.
	Coskata Warrenville, Illinois Coskata, Inc. is a biology-based renewable energy company, with technology for the production of liquid fuels. Using proprietary microorganisms and transformative bioreactor designs, the company will produce ethanol for under US$1.00 per gallon anywhere in the world, from almost any input material (feedstock).
	SMS GupShup Mumbai, India SMS GupShup is the world’s largest social SMS service that allows users to communicate and connect with family, friends and fans using mobile handsets. SMS GupShup extends the capabilities of p2p sms technology to social messaging including 1-to-many, many-to-many and many-to-1 communication, thereby enabling social interactions on sms, the only medium that reaches 4 billion users worldwide. Launched in April 2007, it is used by 26 million users in over 2 million communities.
	Pursway Herzliya, Israel Pursway provides Influencer Marketing Management solutions that help telecommunications, finance, and retail marketing organizations implement a whole new way of reaching consumers – through the people they know and trust most.
	SundaySky Tel Aviv, Israel SundaySky developes video solutions which enables publishers to quickly, easily and cost effectively infuse their website with video. The SundaySky DynamicVideo™ platform extracts the content from any website and molds it into high-quality professional video clips. The clips are generated on the fly, and remain current with the ever changing content of the website while providing online publishers a new avenue of revenue and helping them to better capitalize on their content.
	Solar Silicon Technology (SST) Chiba, Japan Solar Silicon Technology is a leading manufacturer of innovative crystalline silicon for Solar cells. Tremendous demand of Photovoltic cell in the world has caused the higher prices of solar grade silicon. SST's Zinc-Mediated reduction method makes low purity metallurgical silicon into Solar Grade Silicon with lower cost.
	Shimei Semiconductor Kyoto, Japan Shimei Semiconductor is developing disruptive technology that allows LED chips to be on silicon substrate without Gallium depositions. The silicon crystal substrate LED has technical and economical advantages over the existing sapphire substrate LED, which currently dominates the market.
	Nurien Seoul , Korea Nurien is a developer of a new form of 3D social media.
	Open Mile Boston, MA Open Mile is the transportation industry’s first online self-service brokerage. Providing logistics services for both carriers and shippers, Open Mile powers a smarter freight industry, providing shippers with lower costs and better service, and carriers with new customers and revenue opportunities. Open Mile is headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts.
	PerkStreet Financial Boston, MA PerkStreet Financial is building a better way to bank - one that rewards people for making smart and responsible financial choices. The company introduced the first FDIC-insured, online free checking account with a debit card that gives better rewards than a credit card. Customers earn free coffee, music downloads and 1% cash back and have access to 37,000 free ATMs nationwide and fast phone service, 24/7.
	Kaminario Newton, MA Kaminario uses off-the-shelf blade servers and SSD media to create a blazingly fast, highly available and easy-to-deploy distributed storage grid appliance. Driven by Kaminario's innovative SPEAR, the K2 supports millions of IOPS, tens of GB/s of throughput and extremely low latency - all without compromising on high availability. The SPEAR Storage Operating System contains Automated Data Distribution™ and Intelligent Parallel I/O Processing™ that deliver record-breaking read and write performance, eliminating hot spots and bottlenecks automatically.
	Optaros Boston, Massachusetts Optaros is a consulting and systems integration firm that helps enterprises solve IT business problems by providing services and solutions that maximize the benefits of open source software.
	Certeon Burlington, Massachusetts Certeon's aCelera Virtual Appliance software is the industries' first and only virtual appliance to deliver acceleration, virtualization and manageability when remotely accessing applications throughout a distributed enterprise. aCelera software reduces application response time over the WAN by more than 95% - accelerating more applications, to more users, for less cost.
	expressor software Corporation Burlington, Massachusetts Founded in 2003, expressor software develops next-generation data integration software for the global 2000.
	GlassHouse Framingham, Massachusetts A pioneer in the storage services sector, GlassHouse Technologies distinguishes itself by providing solutions from strategy to operations. GlassHouse offers guaranteed services focused on technology and organizational effectiveness.
	Nantero Woburn, Massachusetts Nantero is a nanotechnology company using carbon nanotubes for the development of next-generation semiconductor devices. Nantero’s main focus is the development of NRAM™ –a high-density nonvolatile random access storage device. NRAM™ will replace all existing forms of storage, such as DRAM, SRAM and flash memory, with a high-density nonvolatile RAM – ‘universal memory.’
	Overture Networks Research Triangle Park, North Carolina Overture Networks is the preferred Carrier Ethernet edge and aggregation partner to more than 250 service providers and enterprise customers in 34 countries worldwide. Its innovative solutions have proven to be integral to a service provider’s ability to fully leverage Carrier Ethernet to multiply service revenues and streamline operational costs.
	Think3 Cincinatti, Ohio Think3 develops powerful, affordable, and easy-to-learn 3D design software. (formerly Cad. Lab)
	Redfin Seattle, WA Redfin is the real estate industry's first online brokerage, combining a customer-focused team of real estate agents with online tools for making the process of buying or selling a home easy. Redfin's agents handle every facet of a transaction, including tours, pricing analyses, negotiations, inspections and closings. Redfin is the only major search site to feature listings direct from broker databases as well as for-sale-by-owner and foreclosure properties from across the Internet. The company pays its agents customer-satisfaction bonuses, not commissions, and surveys every client, publishing each survey alongside the agent's complete deal history.
	Strata8 Bellevue, Washington Strata8 Networks provides integrated cell phone and office phone services along with industry specific business applications. Services provide business customers web-based management control, simplified billing, quality customer service, cost savings and ease of use. Basic wireless applications (i.e. email, contacts, calendar, etc.) and advanced wireless applications (applications specific to vertical markets) are easily integrated in our open platform environment.
	SignalSet Seattle, Washington Seattle-based SignalSet has developed the first wireless infrastructure solution that allows machine-to-machine device manufacturers and OEMs to deploy and remotely manage wireless devices capable of seamlessly switching between GSM and CDMA wireless networks with no manual intervention. With SignalSet’s patent-pending Remote Carrier Switching™ technology, wireless machine-to-machine devices are being built to have continuous carrier choice, freely moving between networks as needed to maximize coverage, data transmission speed, and automatic redundancy at an affordable price.